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O'Reilly Seeks to Destroy Georgia Republican Governor

Posted on 05/06/2003 5:58:32 PM PDT by faithincowboys

Tonight, Bill has continued his jihad against Georgia Republican Governor Sonny Perdue. O'Reilly, who recently made what many considered an anti-black remark, has launched a full frontal assault on Perdue.

Inexplicably, Bill O blames the GOP Gov for an all-white private prom that recently occured in Baldwin County Georgia. Of course, if the Governor could prevent the white kids from having a private prom, we would be living in a totalitarian state.

Bill is clearly seeking to destroy Perdue to deflect from his racially insensitive faux pas.

Perdue's Black Female Press Secretary was on The Factor tonight and Bill was rude and hostile to her, it kinda made you think that if Bill were throwing a private party at his big Long Island digs (why doesn't he live closer to work in a more diverse area?) he wouldn't invite her unless she agreed to hold a serving tray all night.

Georgia is all ready in a state of racial tension, due to the flag issue, Bill's attempt to destroy Georgia's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction is, without a doubt, an assault on the GOP.

We should all let O'Reilly know how we feel about this. Also, when O'Reilly's young daughter becomes school age, we must demand that he sends her to a school in Harlem. The white kids who went to that prom attend a 55% African American majority high school and live more racially integrated lives than O'Reilly and his wealthy Long Island elitists ever have.

Were the kids morally wrong to exclude their balck peers from their private prom? Yes. Were they legally wrong? No. Does Sonny Perdue bear any culpability in the matter? Absolutely Not!

O'Reilly is now demanding that Perdue hold a press conference, go on The Factor, and/or go to this week's integrated prom.

I find O'Reilly's stance on this untenable and grotesque. Hobbling a Republican Governor (unfairly) driving up anti-Republican sentiment in the South (a region integral to Dubya's re-election) and galvanizing Southern Democrats is a clear sign that Bill is not on our team.

Maybe he's not on the D team either, perhaps, he is on his own team-- in a very Clintonian way. His jihad against Georgia's Governor is to appease the NYC, DC chattering class who think he is a racist and suspect his Jesse Jackson fixation is rooted in racism.

In a suck up to his critics, Bill O has thrown an innocent man to the wolves. This is outrageous!

and persecuting 18 years olds that


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Georgia; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bias; blowhard; elites; foxnews; gop; hack; hypocrisy; hypocrite; media; ohreally; opportunist; oreilly; race; thetallbegala; wannabeclintonista; witchhunter
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To: faithincowboys
And you believe no white Southerner is not a racist?

Of course there are. It just seems cynical to accept it as a fact of life and promote it.

261 posted on 05/06/2003 11:38:52 PM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus, Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: faithincowboys
Just ask.
262 posted on 05/06/2003 11:41:16 PM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus, Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: ffusco
Now I know you grew up near Cyborg.

So I assume you were raised in a racially integrated area, right?
263 posted on 05/06/2003 11:48:23 PM PDT by faithincowboys
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To: faithincowboys
By the way, does the fact that the integrated prom was to be held at the campus of a historically black college matter?
264 posted on 05/06/2003 11:51:09 PM PDT by faithincowboys
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To: spodefly
Do you still live in Georgia?

May I also ask how old you are?

Has Georgia changed as much as I think it has?

I really resent O'Reilly too. As someone who has just gone to GA for trips to Savannah and Atlanta and when I went to college at FSU, i would take day trips to Thomasville and other little towns, but I don't think I stayed long enough to really get a sense of it.

I think the people who beat up the South for sport are obnoxious. New York has had its share of racial strife.
266 posted on 05/06/2003 11:56:23 PM PDT by faithincowboys
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To: faithincowboys
Yes. I lived in a middle class suburb 40 miles from NYC with a very diverse student body, 4000 in my H.S.

Proud Houstonian since 1996.
267 posted on 05/06/2003 11:56:47 PM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus, Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: ffusco
Texas? Big Change from New York?

268 posted on 05/06/2003 11:59:03 PM PDT by faithincowboys
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To: faithincowboys
No Fair! Your home page is blank!
269 posted on 05/06/2003 11:59:54 PM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus, Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: faithincowboys
Southern people are wonderful. I was here not 2 months before I was invited to crawfish boils, BBQ's, Holidays,and other southern hospitality. Sure, my buddies kid me about my accent and call me a Dago! But they are good friends. I've even beeen invited to Episcopal Church, I'm Catholic.

But I have always felt welcome! (When In Rome) Love bisquits and gravy now too. They can keep the Frito Pie!
270 posted on 05/07/2003 12:08:18 AM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus, Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: spodefly
Answer: Boycott O'rielly
271 posted on 05/07/2003 12:11:00 AM PDT by lotus
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To: TrexDogs
Where did the idea that this private party was an 'all-white prom' originate? Does anyone know?

From the AP story in Post #23.

A year after holding their first integrated prom, some students at Taylor County High School have decided to again hold a separate, private party for whites only.

While many whites say they still plan to attend next week's integrated prom, the decision to hold the whites-only prom this Friday saddened senior Gerica McCrary, who helped organize last year's dance.

"I cried," said McCrary, who is black. "The black juniors said, 'Our prom is open to everyone. If you want to come, come.'"

So, how did we get from 'private party' to 'whites-only prom'?

Maybe this girl was lashing out because she wasn't invited?

Maybe it was a slow news day and the reporter decided to create a story?

I would like to hear what the other side has to say.

272 posted on 05/07/2003 12:17:26 AM PDT by fellowpatriot
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To: faithincowboys
Do you still live in Georgia?

Yes, and incidently, I was born in Albany, which is where the incident in question is occuring. Albany is a strange town, and many people jokingly refer to it as 'Agony' ... I never really lived there (grew up on a farm about 35 miles north of there) and it is not really my favorite town.

May I also ask how old you are?

Yes, you may ask. (43)

Has Georgia changed as much as I think it has?

I am not sure about the extent to which it has changed, but then I never thought Georgia (and the South in general) was as racist as most people think. I have always felt that Boston and New York were way more blatantly racist that the South.

The fact is, here in the south, blacks and whites grew up together in my generation, I suppose for the first generation in this nations history. We like the same food (some call it soul food, but it is just southern cooking to me), we get bit by the same bugs, we bleed when we get cut ... I lived in a rural area, and all my friends when I was young were black because they lived on the same land we did ... we walked up the creeks, found snakes, got stung by bees ... their mama's made the best turnip greens you will ever eat. They had lived there on that land as long as my ancesters had, and the main difference is my family got indoor plumbing in the 30's and they got it in the 50's. My parents never once said anything disparaging about blacks, and there was never anything in my upbringing that caused me to feel that I was superior to blacks. I have never in my life used the "N" word.

I really resent O'Reilly too. As someone who has just gone to GA for trips to Savannah and Atlanta and when I went to college at FSU, i would take day trips to Thomasville and other little towns, but I don't think I stayed long enough to really get a sense of it.

Georgia is a big state. The urban areas are totally different from the rural areas. The mountain areas are different from the coastal plains. South Georgia is very different that North Georgia. It is anything but monolithic in temperment or tone.

I think the people who beat up the South for sport are obnoxious. New York has had its share of racial strife.

I believe the US in general has racial strife because so many people have started making a living off of it. If there was no racial strife, Jesse and Al and Kwesi and a thousand others would be seen for the sorry, manipulative bastards they are. It is in their best interests to continue the victim mentality, and that is causing the problems more than anything else.

Regarding the kids that choose to have a seperate prom -- my feeling is that they are the minority now ... Albany is mostly black, and these kids don't feel that they are doing anything that don't see being done by blacks ... seperating themselves in fashion, in dialect, in culture ... they want their own party, and they should be able to have it. If a group of black kids decided to have a 'black only' party, no one would say a word about it.

273 posted on 05/07/2003 12:21:45 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: spodefly
He just talks and talks and talks and talks and talks ... whoever is on his show is incidental to giving O'Rielly a platform to run his mouth.

What tore it for me is when he had Mansoor Ijaz on during the war and talked over him virtually the whole time. When Mr. Ijaz is on a program, it is for his expertise on the subject of the Middle East. Please let him talk.

On the bright side tonight, he didn't try and flirt with the Governor's spokeswoman. When he starts that schtick, he is REALLY embarrassing.

274 posted on 05/07/2003 1:09:08 AM PDT by lorrainer (Oh, was I ranting? Sorry.....)
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To: faithincowboys
What the $%*& has gotten into O'Reilly? I watched the replay of the show. Sounds like he is saying the Governor of Georgia is a racist if he does not give in to all of O'Reilly's demands. Since Bill has no basis whatsoever for these demands, it makes him sounds like a pompous ass and a jerk. I've seen Bill get a bit overexcited about some issues, but he really went off the deep end on this one.
275 posted on 05/07/2003 1:17:45 AM PDT by frosty snowman
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To: noutopia
We made O'Bill we can bring him down too.

Indeed. He should take a look at his radio ratings against Rush and remember that.

Can't comment on this specifically, until I do further research, but O'Reilly has grown increasingly abrasive on my nerves. It strikes me, that, ironically, he is turning into the very sort of person -- ahem, Jesse Jackson -- that he claims to despise. A shake-down artist of sorts, making sure the spotlight is always on him.

I agree with a lot of what he says, some of what he says I don't, but, as I said, I find his style increasingly grating on my nerves. He has neither the panache nor the affability of a Rush Limbaugh -- or the staying power.

276 posted on 05/07/2003 3:34:10 AM PDT by Kip Lange (The Khaki Pants of Freedom)
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To: TrexDogs
By the same token these kids are having the Taylor County High School Whites-Only Prom. Not a private party at a friend's house ... a prom. This governor is the CEO of the state, the kids attend a taxpayer-funded school in his state, and he should act like a leader and not a wimp. No one's asking him to send in the Marines and forcibly shut down the event. Just to make a clear and unequivocal statement of policy ... it's called leadership, and his stakeholders (taxpayers) deserve that much.

Then at that point, the principal of the school and the superintendent - and arguably the local government should come out and say something.

Considering that Perdue has more important fish to fry (i.e., coming up with a state budget as opposed to playing pattycake over the damn flag with the legislature -- both the Legislature AND Perdue dropped the ball on that this session), and considering that talking about a private party is about as inane as they come.

It's obvious that O'Reilly has found a personal horse to beat on, and he's going to continue to beat on that horse -- mind you without having as much a realistic conversation with anyone else in Georgia (pro or con) now that he's taken the press secretary to task.

I suppose that Sonny Perdue really ought to take my family to task -- Gosh, darn it, we have a family reunion (all black mind you) every summer, and next year we're going to host it in Atlanta (as we do every fourth year). Maybe I ought to go dig up some white family members so as to satisfy Bill O'Reilly!

Feh...

277 posted on 05/07/2003 4:23:20 AM PDT by mhking
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To: TrexDogs
It's Perdue's statement and leadership that's at question, not mine.

Perdue's leadership is not predicated by a bully in a television studio in New York.

If you ask the average citizen in Georgia - black or white - that school prom wouldn't even register. When the same issue came up under the Democratic administration of Roy Barnes last year, calls weren't made for Barnes to say anything - and the citizens of Georgia didn't say squat about it.

I guess it's OK for some carpet-bagging talking head with a personal grudge to beat up on him under the guise of "racial harmony." If he wants to attack Perdue and the Legislature on wasting the entire session on the state flag, great! It's warranted! We (the locals who elected them) want to know why Perdue and the state Legislature haven't given us a budget yet. We want to know how much more tax money they're gonna waste(on a special session) in trying to come up with a budget so that the state doesn't have to shut down. We quite frankly don't give a damn whether or not Sonny Perdue opens his mouth one way or another about that prom - just like we didn't care whether or not Roy Barnes did last year!

278 posted on 05/07/2003 4:30:34 AM PDT by mhking
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To: faithincowboys
So when is O'Reilly gonna demand Gray Davis comment on the activities of those jerks?

Which jerks, the ones in Georgia?

279 posted on 05/07/2003 4:44:22 AM PDT by Dave S
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To: faithincowboys
Donning white hoods while burning crosses on busy city streets on MLK Day and line dancing in a rec hall? I know those two activities are morally equivalent, but I just haven't figured how yet, maybe you can help me?

Both are legal. But if you still dont see the stupidity or more negatively, the harrasment value of an all white prom, no "blackies" allowed, then there is no way I'm going to convince you. Your parents screwed up.

280 posted on 05/07/2003 4:53:15 AM PDT by Dave S
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